The M.O. (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Katharine Hepburn and Oscars. Barry Bonds and NL MVP Awards. Leslie Cochran and Most Annoying Pseudo-Celebrity in Austin nods. Fairly or not, it seems some people were just born to win certain awards. For the second year in a row, Austin's most recognizable cross-dresser has received the ignominious prize, receiving a couple of more votes than cycling legend Lance Armstrong and fashionisto Stephen...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
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ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A courageous female aviator has an affair with a married businessman and finds herself pregnant. CAST: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler DIR: Dorothy Arzner (1933)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Elise Kohn Friedman, 93, a mother of three who enjoyed the role of a successful doctor's wife but was often seen shoveling the driveway or hanging the screens in her Elkins Park home, died Monday at her home in Center City.
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann's Australia within its first 15 minutes, but any or all of the above will help. Tightly wound and corset...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann's Australia within its first 15 minutes, but any or all of the above will help. Tightly wo...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
High art or chick flick? "Australia" does have two strong things going for it.
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Adam Elliot and Melanie Combs are returning to Park City, Utah with their clay-animated feature Mary and Max. The feature, voiced my Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar nominee Toni Collette, opens the 25th Sundance Film Festival, January 15, 2009. The story is a portrait of global friendship that follows a 20-year, pen-pal correspondence between an [...]
Latest Activity on DisFriends (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
I think TCM is a terrific channel, but sometimes it stumbles big time. The channel is saluting "Leading Couples" through a book and a film festival. The book dubs these pairings "The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era."...
Professional Mirror, Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Your result for The Classic Dames Test... Katharine Hepburn You scored 19% grit, 24% wit, 38% flair, and 26% class! You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally...
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Click Here to download full episode This 1952 George Cukor film was ahead of its time in portraying equality between the sexes. Katharine Hepburn stars as Pat Pemberton, an ace golf player who excels at almost every sport imaginable but turns into a biddable female when her overbearing fiance is around. Enter Mike (Spencer Tracy), a [...]
Geoff Arnold (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Film of the week: Illicit (1931). From IMDB: The film is interesting because it’s early Stanwyck, but also because of the independent woman angle which soon will fade from view with the ushering in of the code. Once the ’40s hit, the independent woman became an uptight career woman wearing a tailored suit, her hair up, [...]
Jo Beaufoix (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
When I was a child I used to really worry about old style actresses. In all their black and white ethereal beauty, with their dark pouty lips and small slender hands that were almost painfully female and breakable. I used to worry and ponder while admiring their shimmering perfectly coiffured hair and amazing hour glass figures [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
We've come a long way from "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," haven't we? Forty-one years ago, the movie was widely debated for its look at interracial marriage. This week, the country elected Barack Obama, the product of an interracial marriage,...
